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Jenny McCarthy tells her story
August 8, 2008 |
Jenny McCarthy’s son fell terribly ill with seizures at the age of two. Thirty percent of autistic children suffer from seizures, as was the case with Jenny McCarthy’s son, Evan. Jenny McCarthy’s original team of doctors offered her little hope for Evan’s improvement, leaving her lost and frustrated. Finally help came her way in the form of a fellow Hollywood mom, Holly Robinson Peete, who also has a son with Autism. Robinson Peete’s experience and advice offered Jenny a glimmer of light in an otherwise pitch black tunnel.
Jenny McCarthy tells her story: “When this happened, when Evan got the diagnosis, I knew immediately deep down within me, that I was literally supposed to be the one to come out about Autism and just kind of spread the message to the world. I just knew it, because I always wondered why I became a best selling author for Mommy books. I’m going, “God this is so odd in my life, that I’ve got all these moms’ attention. I wonder why. Why am I the ‘go to’ for mommies and babies?” Then this happened and I went “Ah!”
“And then along my journey with healing Evan, I noticed that my story resembled so many other moms, of the struggles we were going through and what we believe triggered our children’s autism and how I was able to help recover Evan; how thousands of moms are recovering [their children] and no one is talking about it. So with all of those things piling up, there was no one else in the world I knew that God had intended to come out and be as loud as they possibly could.”
She found the ammunition she needed in the form of a strict dairy free and wheat free diet, an anti-fungal medication, and in various forms of behavioral therapy. She also enlisted the help of a DAN! (Defeat Autism Now!) Doctor.
“A DAN Doctor was the one who said, “He’s got yeast.” I was like, “What’s Candida?” People don’t realize it, and it’s not only in these kids by the way. My sister was loaded with it. That’s how we diagnosed my sister. She had chronic illness and found out through Evan that she had Candida. It’s one of those things that I think people are going to see more and more as time goes on.”
PR.com: Every time he eliminated more yeast, you saw tremendous progress?
Jenny McCarthy: He started speaking. Words were coming out as he was throwing up.
PR.com: Is he still classified as autistic or is he classified as what they call “typical?”
Jenny McCarthy: He’s classified as typical, but he still has auditory processing issues. I still have him in speech [therapy]. But he’s in typical school and completely normal functioning. Once in awhile we’ll talk so quickly and there will be so much information, and he’ll go, “Wait. Can you slow down?” That’s Evan’s thing though (laughs). He’s like, “You’re talking too fast!” And that’s auditory processing, where there is too much information together at once. But all of the autism is gone.
PR.com: And he hugs and kisses you and expresses love, and all of that good stuff?
Jenny McCarthy: Oh My God! You have no idea. That’s all he does, yes! “I love you mommy. I love you so much!” And squeezes, hugs and kisses.
PR.com: And then you realized the contrast from when he was sick, I’m sure. Because you said that you kind of blocked out the fact that he wasn’t showing affection when he was experiencing the autism.
Jenny McCarthy: He was not at all. He was not giving me anything. He wouldn’t even let me hold him.
PR.com: What does that contrast feel like, to go from that to all of a sudden having this child who is now alive and showing affection everyday?
Jenny McCarthy: Blessing; gift from God; lucky stars! I can never bitch about anything again for the rest of my life! Ever! I can never say, “My butt’s too big for these jeans.” I can never say that I don’t have enough money…
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